This week I let Bug-A-Boo choose what our theme would be and she chose Supernatural.
Supernatural first broadcast on September 13, 2005, on The WB, and is the only remaining WB show to transition and stay on The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the two brothers as they hunt demons, ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural beings.
With Supernatural being one of my favorite shows I wanted to introduced Bug-A-Boo to it and as I predicted, it quickly became one of her favorites. After a 15 year run, this November, the series finale will air and there will be two very sad girls in this house. I guess we'll just have to start watching it from the beginning all over again.
With the show's end in sight I wanted to have something that could help our fandom live on so I purchased The Official Cookbook of Supernatural.
I thought that we could have some fun making the recipes from the book and rewatching the episodes that they are inspired by. This may be the first of a few Supernatural weeks to come, since we only have 7 episodes remaining.
This week we will be revisiting Season 3, Episode 1, The Magnificent Seven.
"The Winchester brothers, at one point or another, both feel like they're living on borrowed time. After he makes a deal with a Crossroads Demon to save Sam, Dean goes for broke, eating his beloved burgers whenever he wants. When Bobby sees Dean eating them for breakfast, he says..."
So tonight we will be watching The Magnificent Seven and trying Dean's Breakfast Bacon Cheeseburgers with Honey Sriracha Aioli.
DEAN'S BREAKFAST BACON CHEESEBURGERS WITH HONEY SRIRACHA AIOLI
SERVES 4
HONEY SRIRACHA AIOLI
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 Tbsp sriracha
1 tsp honey
1 tsp lemon juice
1 clove garlic, mashed
BURGERS
1-1/2 lbs ground beef
1 Tbsp of cooking oil or 1 pat of butter
4 slices American cheese
4 Hawaiian hamburger buns or any other large, slightly sweet rolls
Salt and pepper
TOPPINGS
2 Tbsp butter
4 eggs
8 slices cooked bacon
DIRECTIONS
1. To make the aioli: Combine all the ingredients in a glass bowl. Mis well with a fork until smooth, then cover and refrigerate while you prepare the remaining ingredients.
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| Mashing the garlic |
2. Cook your bacon in your frying pan and set on paper towel to drain the grease.
3. To make the hamburgers: dived the beef into four equal-sized patties. Do it very gently, just to combine. If you knead the meat to much the burgers will get a chewy texture. Burgers shrink when you cook them so form your patties a little larger than your buns. To get flat burgers, use your thumbs to form a shallow indent in the middle of the patty. When the burgers bulge up during cooking, they'll still end up flat.
3. Melt a pat of butter in your frying pan before you add the meat.
4. Cook a good sized patty on medium high for about 5 minutes on one side. DO NOT move the burgers for these first 5 minutes. Add the American cheese to the patties after you flip them. Cover the pan for the last 2 minutes of cooking to help the cheese melt. Tent your burgers with foil to keep them warm and let them rest for a minute or two after cooking. This allows the juices to redistribute into the meat.
5. While your patties are resting, lightly toast your Buns and prepare your toppings. Wipe out the pan and melt 1 Tbsp of the butter over medium heat. Break the eggs one at a time and gently add them to the pan. Cook the eggs for 2 to 3 minutes, until the edges are golden brown, the whites are opaque, and the yoke have begun to set but aren't fully cooked. Remove from the heat.
6. Wipe out the pan and melt the remaining 1 Tbsp of butter over medium heat. Grill the buns, cut-sides down, for about 1 minute, until golden. Remove from heat.
7. Slather the top and bottom insides of the buns with the aioli, then layer the burger, egg and bacon.
Serve with home fries or tater tots and the rest of the aioli as a dipping sauce.
For dessert, I also let Bug-A-Boo choose what she wanted from the book. I thought for sure she was going to choose a pie, since Dean's favorite is pie. Any kind of pie.
Well, she surprised me and chose Castiel's Angel Food Cake. Castiel, often shortened to Cass, is a powerful angel of the Lord who was responsible for saving Dean Winchester from Hell, on the archangels' command. He becomes another brother to the Winchesters and there is nothing quite like a Sassy Cass!
CASTIEL'S ANGEL FOOD CAKE
SERVES 8 to 10
INGREDIENTS
1 cup all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups sugar, divided
12 egg whites, at room temperature
1/4 tsp salt
1-1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
Fresh fruit, chocolate sauce of Strawberry Sauce (recipe follow)
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine the flour and 1/2 cup of the sugar in a small bowl and set aside.
3. Place the egg whites, salt, cream of tartar, and almond and vanilla extracts in the bowl o a mixer. Beat on medium with a balloon attachment until soft peaks form, then gradually add the remaining 1 cup sugar while the mixer is running, a few spoonfuls at a time, until the egg whites have become glossy white peaks, about 5 minutes. Remove from the mixer.
4. Gently fold in the flour mixture by hand with a spatula.
5. Pour the batter into an uncreased tube or Bundt pan. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until light golden brown.
6. Remove from the oven, invert the pan, and allow to cool for a least an hour. If the top of the cake is in danger of flattening out on the counter, place the pan on top of a long-neck bottle to hold it off the surface.
7. run a knife around the edge of the cake once it's cool and remove from the pan. Slice and serve with fresh fruit, drizzled chocolate sauce or Strawberry Sauce.
STRAWBERRY SAUCE
INGREDIENTS
1lb strawberries
1/2 cup sugar
Juice of 1/2 lemon
DIRECTIONS
1. Chop the strawberries, discarding the stems and hulls. Combine them with the sugar and lemon juice in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then reduce to a simmer and cook for about 15 minutes, until the fruit has mostly broken down and the sauce has thickened. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
This was a super yummy dinner! I will defintitely make it again.
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